Stefan Petri's Soft Utilities

• xbrload - another x(n)load application
  
  XBrload is a replacement for xload(1), xnload(1). xbrload uses the RPC - based rstat protocol to gather its informa- tion. Unlike xnload it works asynchronously, thus avoiding hung connections, and utilizes the broadcast RPC mechanism to keep the number of packets low. (Note that the RPC broadcast mechanism does not necessarily imply that an IP or Ethernet broadcast is done. Broadcast-RPC primarily means, that the server program is queried indirectly by sending a request to the remote portmapper to pass an enveloped request to the server program, instead of getting the server program's port number from the remote portmapper and then sending the request in another packet.)
  FTP xbrload-0.8.7.tar.gz
  The latest version is coming real soon to the FTP server: FTP xbrload-0.8.7c.tar.gz

• rpc.etherd - network statistic server
  
  Rpc.etherd is a value added replacement for the SunOS program rpc.etherd, which runs on Solaris, DEC Ultrix, Linux and BSD-ish systems with Berkeley Packet Filter, originally written by Guy Cardwell.
  This is a version for rpc.etherd that runs on several different platforms. I took the original source for the Ultrix system and added specific modules for Linux and for Unix flavors with Berkeley Packet Filter (bpf).
  (It would have been cleaner to use the packet capture library libpcap, but that uses its own loop with callback functions, which I found ill-suited for an RPC server daemon. sigh).
  Frank Strauß added dlpi support, for Solaris 2.x.
  FTP rpc.etherd-0.7.tar.gz

• xetherload - graphical client for the rpc.etherd
  
  Xetherload uses the RPC - based etherstat protocol to gather its information. It queries the rpc.etherd on the given host for the data.
  FTP xetherload-0.1.tar.gz

• kbq - display keyboard type
  
  Kbq displays on stdout the type and/or layout of the keyboard that is connected to the console keyboard device.
  FTP kbq-0.2.tar.gz

• fbq - display frame buffer type
  
  Fbq displays on stdout the real and emulated type(s) of the frame buffer that is connected to /dev/fb (on Sun) or the given device.
  FTP fbq.tar.gz

• termset - try to find the terminal name
  
  Termset tries to query the terminal, sending a request for an identity string to the terminal. If successful, the identifier for the TERM environment variable is written to stdout, and a message 'Terminal : <xxx>' is written to stderr.
  Yes, this sounds very similar to tset(1), it was written on/for machines where tset was not available or broken.
  FTP termset-0.43.tar.gz

• ms+tubsibr - distributed mandelbrot set calculator
  
  A previous version of the mandelspawn program by Andreas Gustafsson was enhanced by Erik Schöfelder to use longer numbers, thus gaining better depths through greater precision. This link points to a similarly enhanced version of the latest version of mandelspawn.
  FTP ms-0.07+tubsibr.tar.gz